Final Jeopardy: American Literature (3-3-23)

Here are some more clues from the 3/3/2023 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

COLORS OF THE RAINBOW ($1000) Some of the oxygen we breathe is created by these of division chlorophyta, which can be single celled

COMPLETE THE PANGRAM ($800) “We promptly judged” this old word “ivory buckles for the next prize”

The players got all the clues in QUOTATIONS:

($400) In 1944 this teen wrote, “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart”
($800) In “The Story of My Life”, she wrote of the coincidence of one of her ancestors being “the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich”
($1200) Thomas Edison gave us, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent” this
($1600) “Throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet” was part of her dissent of dismantling the VRA
($2000) In 1983 he predicted that “The computer will become the predominant medium of communication”

QUOTATIONS ANSWERS: show

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — NOVEL KEYWORDS
($200) What the Dickens?: orphans; criminals; kidnapping victims; London
($400) From 1939: migrant agricultural laborers; rural families; depressions; labor camps; California
($600) By Tolstoy: married women; adultery; Russia
($800) From 2005: vampires, high schools; schools; Washington (state)
($1000) A Pulitzer winner: marginality, social; mothers & sons; New Orleans

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show

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2 Responses

  1. Rick says:

    Regarding FJ, I would have never read that book, and likely for the aforementioned reasons.

  2. William Weyser says:

    Avi Gupta defeated Jackson Jones on a tiebreaker in the 3rd Semi-Final match of the 2019 Teen Tournament on 6/26/19. Today, no tiebreaker was needed, but Jackson got his revenge on Avi, and Jackson is in the Finals this time.